Is Obamamania over already? The Secret Service and the Washington D.C. City Administrator are revising their inauguration attendance estimates down from four to five million, saying that about half that number are now expected to attend. Two million visitors would still be five times the 400,000 guests who came to see President Bush in 2004, and would still overwhelm local infrastructure. The record for an inauguration is Lyndon Johnson’s 1.2 million in 1965, so Obama can still break that. The Mall is estimated to have the capacity for three million people.
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